Fans saw the usual Atlantic Division animosity in a back and forth game at Benchmark International Arena on Tuesday, a matchup in which the Tampa Bay Lightning fell to the Montreal Canadiens 4-1.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay is now 46-22-6 this season.<\/p>\n
Montreal grabbed the first goal on a 5-on-3 power play in the first period, but Jake Guentzel tied the score just over a minute later. Cole Caufield\u2019s goal in the second period stood as the winner for the visitors, who added a pair of empty-net goals.<\/p>\n
Zemgus Girgensons and Ryan McDonagh each had an assist for Tampa Bay, and goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy made 19 saves.<\/p>\n
Scoring summary<\/p>\n
First period<\/p>\n
MTL 1, TBL 0<\/p>\n
12:25 Juraj Slafkovsky (29) – Ivan Demidov, Cole Caufield – PP<\/p>\n
The Canadiens took advantage of a power play for the game\u2019s first goal, this one on a Juraj Slafkovsky one-timer in the right circle.<\/p>\n
MTL 1, TBL 1<\/p>\n
13:41 Jake Guentzel (36) – Zemgus Girgensons, Ryan McDonagh<\/p>\n
The Lightning tied the game just over a minute after the opening tally thanks to Jake Guentzel\u2019s wraparound goal.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: MTL 9, TBL 8<\/p>\n
Second period<\/p>\n
MTL 2, TBL 1<\/p>\n
12:49 Cole Caufield (47) – Slafkovsky, Mike Matheson<\/p>\n
The Canadiens restored the lead on a rush look that ended with a Cole Caufield shot near the right goalpost.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: TBL 12, MTL 6<\/p>\n
Third period<\/p>\n
MTL 3, TBL 1<\/p>\n
17:55 Mike Matheson (7) – Unassisted – EN<\/p>\n
A full-ice shot into the empty Lightning net added to the scoring.<\/p>\n
MTL 4, TBL 1<\/p>\n
18:54 Nick Suzuki (27) – Unassisted – EN<\/p>\n
Another empty-net goal ended the offense.<\/p>\n
Total shots: TBL 37, MTL 23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans saw the usual Atlantic Division animosity in a back and forth game at Benchmark International Arena on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-213969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}